On: Terraform 0.15 General Availability

[darthrupert]

No, Ansible is not good for this. It's good for maintaining clusters of hosts, but its stateless nature makes it close to worthless for infrastructure.

[aprdm → darthrupert]

Well I guess I beg to differ. Been creating and managing 10ks of hosts across multiple on prems datacenters and clouds for some time now.

[apple4ever → aprdm]

How do you deal with this with Ansible instead of Terraform?

I'd love to have a single tool, but Ansible's style seems like a poor fit especially compared to Terraform.

[darthrupert → aprdm]

Perhaps we have a different view of what infrastructure means? Managing hosts isn't it by my view.

[aprdm → darthrupert]

Possibly! Care to share your view?